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"Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. With an afterword by John D'Emilio, this collection enables readers to examine the role memory, desire, sexuality, and gender play in documenting LGBTQ communities and cultures.The historical themes addressed include 1950s and '60s lesbian bar culture; social life after the Cuban revolution; the organization of transvestite social clubs in the U.S. midwest in the 1960s; Australian gay liberation activism in the 1970s; San Francisco electoral politics and the career of Harvey Milk; Asian American community organizing in pre-AIDS Los Angeles; lesbian feminist ""sex war"" cultural politics; 1980s and '90s Latina/o transgender community memory and activism in San Francisco; and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The methodological themes include questions of silence, sexual self-disclosure and voyeurism, the intimacy between researcher and narrator, and the social and political commitments negotiated through multiple oral history interviews. The book also examines the production of comparative racial and sexual identities and the relative strengths of same-sexuality, cross-sexuality, and cross-ideology interviewing."

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Author:   Nan Alamilla Boyd (Professor of women & gender studies, Professor of women & gender studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, US) ,  Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (Associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, Associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, US)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780199742738

ISBN 10:   0199742731
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Close Encounters: The Body and Knowledge in Queer Oral History by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez and Nan Alamilla Boyd Part 1: Silence Chapter 1: Sex, 'Silence,' and Audiotape: Listening for Female Same-Sex Desire in Cuba by Carrie Hamilton Oral history by Carrie Hamilton with ""Laura,"" Havana, Cuba, 2005-2007 Chapter 2: Remembering Provincetown: Oral History and Narrativity at Land's End by Karen Krahulik Oral history by Karen Krahulik with Marguerite Beata Cook, Provincetown, Massachusetts, January 22, 1997 Chapter 3: Queer Family Stories: Learning from Oral Histories with Lesbian Mothers and Gay Fathers from the Pre-Stonewall Era by Daniel Rivers Oral history by Daniel Rivers with Vera Clarice Martin, Apache Junction, Arizona, September 2, 2006 Chapter 4: Spiraling Desire: Recovering the Lesbian Embodied Self in Oral History Narrative by Jeff Friedman Oral history by Jeff Friedman with Terry Sendgraff, San Francisco, California, November 12 and 28, and December 6, 1990 Part 2: Sex Chapter 5: Talking About Sex: Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher Tell Their Stories by Nan Alamilla Boyd Oral history by Nan Alamilla Boyd with Cheryl Gonzales, San Francisco, California, February 1, 1992; oral history by Nan Alamilla Boyd with Rikki Streicher, San Francisco, California, January 22, 1992 Chapter 6: Private Lives and Public History: On Excavating the Sexual Past in Queer Oral History Practice by Jason Ruiz Oral history by Jason Ruiz with Charles W. Paul Larsen, Columbia Heights, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 16, 2004 Chapter 7: Gender, Desire, and Feminism: A Conversation between Dorothy Allison and Carmen Vázquez by Kelly Anderson Oral history by Kelly Anderson with Dorothy Allison and Carmen Vázquez, San Francisco, California, November 19, 2007 Part 3: Friendship Chapter 8: Friendship, Institutions, Oral History by Michael David Franklin Oral history interview by Michael David Franklin and Dorthe Troeften with Carol, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 24, 2005 Chapter 9: Gay Teachers and Students, Oral History and Queer Kinship by Daniel Marshall Oral history by Daniel Marshall with Gary Jaynes and Graham Carbery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, August 6, 2008 Chapter 10: Sharing Queer Authorities: Collaborating for Transgender Latina and Gay Latino Historical Meanings Horacio N. Roque Ramírez Oral history by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez with Alberta Nevaeres (aka ""Teresita la Campesina""), San Francisco, California, April 27, 1996 Part 4: Politics Chapter 11: Dancing with Stella, Los Angeles Daughters of Bilitis Pioneer Marcia M. Gallo Oral history by Marcia Gallo with Stella Rush, Los Angeles, California, March 15 and 19, May 2, May 21 and 22, November 17, 2002 Chapter 12: ""You Could Argue That They Control Power"": Politics and Interviewing across Sexualities by Martin Meeker Oral history by Martin Meeker with Quentin Kopp, San Mateo, California, April 16 and 17, 2007 Chapter 13: Don't Ask: Discussing Sexuality in the American Military and the Media by Steve Estes Oral history by Steve Estes with Brian Hughes, Washington D.C., January 25, 2005 Chapter 14: Thanks for the Memories: A Narrator Asks an Oral Historian for Validation by Eric C. Wat Oral history by Eric Wat with Ernest Wada, Los Angeles, California, December 4, 1997 Afterword: ""If I Knew Then..."" John D'Emilio Contributors Index"

Reviews

<br> This exciting, well-conceived collection examines the centrality of oral history to the development of LGBTQ history over the last four decades. Vitally important, this ground-breaking book will prove significant to any number of students and scholars of history, ethnography, and American studies. - John Howard, professor of American studies, King's College London<br><p><br> With its innovative format-oral history transcripts combined with comments about the interview process-Bodies of Evidence powerfully demonstrates the methodological value of queer oral history. As documents of intimacy, sexuality, and the everyday, both the interviews and the behind-the-scenes stories make for compelling reading. -Ann Cvetkovich, professor of English and women's and gender studies, University of Texas at Austin<br><p><br>

<br> Students of the LGBTQ movement will find the excerpts thought provoking. Oral historians and researchers who use oral history will profit from reading the excellent commentaries...Highly recommended. --CHOICE<p><br> This exciting, well-conceived collection examines the centrality of oral history to the development of LGBTQ history over the last four decades. Vitally important, this ground-breaking book will prove significant to any number of students and scholars of history, ethnography, and American studies. --John Howard, King's College London <br><p><br> With its innovative format-oral history transcripts combined with comments about the interview process-Bodies of Evidence powerfully demonstrates the methodological value of queer oral history. As documents of intimacy, sexuality, and the everyday, both the interviews and the behind-the-scenes stories make for compelling reading. --Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas at Austin <br><p><br>

<br> Students of the LGBTQ movement will find the excerpts thought provoking. Oral historians and researchers who use oral history will profit from reading the excellent commentaries...Highly recommended. --CHOICE<p><br> This exciting, well-conceived collection examines the centrality of oral history to the development of LGBTQ history over the last four decades. Vitally important, this ground-breaking book will prove significant to any number of students and scholars of history, ethnography, and American studies. - John Howard, professor of American studies, King's College London<br><p><br> With its innovative format-oral history transcripts combined with comments about the interview process-Bodies of Evidence powerfully demonstrates the methodological value of queer oral history. As documents of intimacy, sexuality, and the everyday, both the interviews and the behind-the-scenes stories make for compelling reading. -Ann Cvetkovich, professor of English and women's and gender studies, University of Texas at Austin<br><p><br>

Author Information

Nan Alamilla Boyd is professor of women and gender studies, San Francisco State University and author of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Horacio N. Roque Ramírezis associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of the forthcoming Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s.

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